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  • BarrabasBarrabas Registered User
    I'm not sure if I hate Raiden's Teleport or his Superman more. Those have to be two of the best specials in the game.

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  • Hiryu02Hiryu02 Registered User regular
    It's the combo of the tele/superman that's insane. Players are already doing it. I'm not talking about spammed BS, I'm talking about good players, including one of the guys that helped write the guide, who was known as a very very good MK player in his time. Him and the dudes he's training.

    Sev: Your gameplay is the most heavily yomi based around. Usually you look for characters that allow you to force guessing situations for big dmg. Even if the guess is mathematically nowhere near in your favor lol. You're happiest when you have either a 50/50, 33/33/33 or even a 75/25 situation to go crazy with. And you will take big risks to force those situations to come up.
  • Nick TNick T Registered User regular
    You can add me to 360 peeps. GT - convic nic

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  • RoyallyFlushedRoyallyFlushed Registered User regular
    The thing that makes Raiden ridiculously powerful is the superman (or "electric fly" or whatever it's actually called) punishes jumping pretty much anywhere on screen. And then on top of this he has the best teleport in the game, since to my knowledge it can't be punished unless you're literally standing there doing nothing at the time he ports in on you.

    I'm hoping the characters get tweaked a significant bit here and there. The top few need at least a small bump down, and the bottom few could use a pretty decent leg up.

  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity Ask me about Super Propane and Super Propane accessoriesRegistered User regular
    Anyway.

    I have a Kitana Kode

    I'd like to trade it for something else

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  • BarrabasBarrabas Registered User
    The thing that makes Raiden ridiculously powerful is the superman (or "electric fly" or whatever it's actually called) punishes jumping pretty much anywhere on screen. And then on top of this he has the best teleport in the game, since to my knowledge it can't be punished unless you're literally standing there doing nothing at the time he ports in on you.

    I'm hoping the characters get tweaked a significant bit here and there. The top few need at least a small bump down, and the bottom few could use a pretty decent leg up.

    Don't forget the superman also automatically puts you in the corner. That's a BIG deal.

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  • DunxcoDunxco Should get a suit Never skips breakfastRegistered User regular
    Yeah, a high-level Raiden will be utter bullshit. Wasn't there a stream not too long ago that had a Raiden player who basically just spammed superman and got pretty far in the tourney?

    Think the final of that one was an Ermac vs Reptile.

    I expect either Raiden's teleport or Superman will get toned down a little. Not both, but probably one or the other.

    Barrabas I saw a twitter saying Baraka will get some love, and Kano's forward+FK will be turned into a low attack. Rejoice.

    Edit: Hahaha, Ed Boon's twitter:

    RT @LiMei2010 @noobde Li Mei Li Mei Li Mei Li Mei Li Mei Li Mei! :) Noobde: NoWay NoWay NoWay NoWay NoWay! ;)

  • krylon666krylon666 Registered User regular
    redfield85 wrote: »
    Bizazedo wrote: »
    Red, where abouts are you? Some of your info seems to indicate Philly area.

    You should stick with a fighting game for more than a few weeks and hit up real tournaments. They're fun.

    Any place that has a listing of tourney locations?

    And, Masume, are you sure you wanna get your ass beat? :winky:

    If you guys are from philly and want to start hitting up the local spots let me know. There's a tournament this weekend in university city at the arcade. They're doing SSF4:AE, MVC, and MK (and some other shit). It's not huge, but it sounds pretty good. I'm most likely going to be out of town (in vegas for the PDP tournament) but I'm definitely trying to hit up all the local tournaments this year.

    I live in south philly btw.

    Some tournament info:
    http://shoryuken.com/f7/
    http://shoryuken.com/f7/university-family-fun-center-philly-ssf4-ae-mvc3-mk9-ah3-3s-5-15-11-pot-bonus-268139/ (the event this weekend)

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  • Page-Page- Registered User regular
    Good.

    I don't think Raiden needs to be nerfed, not in those ways.

    Nerf the stuff about him that's actually interesting and fun and everyone loses.

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  • Mr_GrinchMr_Grinch Registered User regular
    Anyway.

    I have a Kitana Kode

    I'd like to trade it for something else

    I'll trade you for a sandwich and some chocolate.

    :edit: This is a terrible TOTP

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  • LCDXXLCDXX Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Page- wrote: »
    Word on the street is that psn is delaying both the first round of dlc and the first major balance patch.

    Way to go, Sony.
    Is this impacting the 360, as well? Not that I care much since I have the PS3 version anyway.

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  • Page-Page- Registered User regular
    The 360 ain't getting those patches till the ps3 does.

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity Ask me about Super Propane and Super Propane accessoriesRegistered User regular
    Mr_Grinch wrote: »
    Anyway.

    I have a Kitana Kode

    I'd like to trade it for something else

    I'll trade you for a sandwich and some chocolate.

    :edit: This is a terrible TOTP

    Nope

    Althoug it seems these codes are not of equal value

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  • WingedWeaselWingedWeasel Registered User regular
    Dunxco wrote: »
    Yeah, a high-level Raiden will be utter bullshit. Wasn't there a stream not too long ago that had a Raiden player who basically just spammed superman and got pretty far in the tourney?

    If we are thinking of the same stream it was at power-up, and he switched to raiden, spent a ton of time spamming superman and either barely won or ended up losing. I think. It definitely happened but I am sketchy on the outcome.


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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    Dunxco, adus-aristaeus is actually the full PSN name. Sorry, I should have clarified.

  • DunxcoDunxco Should get a suit Never skips breakfastRegistered User regular
    Righto Adus, editing it.

  • WingedWeaselWingedWeasel Registered User regular
    So I just fought what I can honestly say is the best smoke I have ever gone against. EX-shake on reaction (jump in), and didn't drop any of the juggles. I am not sure how the hell he managed to time the smoke bombs every time however. I can never get them to land right.


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  • MasumeMasume Registered User regular
    krylon666 wrote: »
    redfield85 wrote: »
    Bizazedo wrote: »
    Red, where abouts are you? Some of your info seems to indicate Philly area.

    You should stick with a fighting game for more than a few weeks and hit up real tournaments. They're fun.

    Any place that has a listing of tourney locations?

    And, Masume, are you sure you wanna get your ass beat? :winky:

    If you guys are from philly and want to start hitting up the local spots let me know. There's a tournament this weekend in university city at the arcade. They're doing SSF4:AE, MVC, and MK (and some other shit). It's not huge, but it sounds pretty good. I'm most likely going to be out of town (in vegas for the PDP tournament) but I'm definitely trying to hit up all the local tournaments this year.

    I live in south philly btw.

    Some tournament info:
    http://shoryuken.com/f7/
    http://shoryuken.com/f7/university-family-fun-center-philly-ssf4-ae-mvc3-mk9-ah3-3s-5-15-11-pot-bonus-268139/ (the event this weekend)

    Sorry, I'm ass end in florida. Meh, no one plays around here save in the big cities.

    Come on Red, you can do better than threaten. Don't tell me you quit the game already before I had a chance to beat your face in properly. :P

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  • Linespider5Linespider5 We Good? Registered User regular
    I'm just gonna bitch about MK Legacy again. I didn't even finish episode 4. Matte paintings to rough animation to actors and back again? An endless, endless, endless narration over the whole thing, when the series hasn't had a narrator before? Suddenly going all magic & mutants when, until now, the series has been very carefully scaling the suspension of disbelief? The hell is this? Is this what we can expect now? I suppose the Scorpion and Sub-Zero episode is going to work just like this one will, in fact probably all the other characters are going to be random swaps between live action and animation and it's gonna be patchwork all over the place.

    Also: Please stop with the stock ululating background vocals to add 'flavor' to the scenes and beat us over the head with how generically exotic everything is. Just. Stop.

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    Well it wasn't good, but I'm glad they're keeping the mystical elements. I kinda thought the Rebirth trailer with Barraka just being some crazed surgeon or whatever who put blades on his arms was actually more ridiculous than being from another race from another dimension. It's not Mortal Kombat.

    Also the actresses playing Mileena and Kitana looked like high school cheerleaders.

  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt w o r s h i p c a t g o dRegistered User regular
    So I suppose the tournament has finally withered away

    If anyone wants to get scrappy before the next one gets going (fingers crossed here), gamertag is Mitchapaloozaa

    I'm on the list, but I joined late and only added Turkey

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  • redfield85redfield85 Registered User regular
    Masume wrote: »
    krylon666 wrote: »
    redfield85 wrote: »
    Bizazedo wrote: »
    Red, where abouts are you? Some of your info seems to indicate Philly area.

    You should stick with a fighting game for more than a few weeks and hit up real tournaments. They're fun.

    Any place that has a listing of tourney locations?

    And, Masume, are you sure you wanna get your ass beat? :winky:

    If you guys are from philly and want to start hitting up the local spots let me know. There's a tournament this weekend in university city at the arcade. They're doing SSF4:AE, MVC, and MK (and some other shit). It's not huge, but it sounds pretty good. I'm most likely going to be out of town (in vegas for the PDP tournament) but I'm definitely trying to hit up all the local tournaments this year.

    I live in south philly btw.

    Some tournament info:
    http://shoryuken.com/f7/
    http://shoryuken.com/f7/university-family-fun-center-philly-ssf4-ae-mvc3-mk9-ah3-3s-5-15-11-pot-bonus-268139/ (the event this weekend)

    Sorry, I'm ass end in florida. Meh, no one plays around here save in the big cities.

    Come on Red, you can do better than threaten. Don't tell me you quit the game already before I had a chance to beat your face in properly. :P

    I'll have to check it out sometime.

    Masume, I haven't played too much of anything lately I think. I've played some WWE All-Stars (which is a pretty fun game), but that is about it. I don't know about this week, but I should be good to go next week.

  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero Registered User regular
    I'm not having very much fun with the challenge tower. Constantly being dumped into new characters that I don't know, and getting my ass kicked.

    Also, Baraka sucks so so bad.

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  • ArdeArde Registered User
    Anyone wanna play MK online in xbl? GT is mailarde


    Good games with masume - got my ass whooped hard a few times. :/

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  • MasumeMasume Registered User regular
    Arde wrote: »
    Anyone wanna play MK online in xbl? GT is mailarde


    Good games with masume - got my ass whooped hard a few times. :/

    GG's man, your Lui Kang is pretty nice. Same on the Kano too, I just think Kano is too limited on what he can do. Same with Cage really, but I think Cage does a lot more damage on average. Plus hey, nut punch!

    Sub Zero gives me a lot of trouble on my more aggressive characters, so I like those kinds of fights. Makes me think. Kitana is awesome though, even when I don't know jack about her she is nasty. I should pick her up as a fourth.

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  • gnodabgnodab Registered User
    I'm liking Nightwolf a lot so far. Most of his moves being quarter-circle make playing with a dualshock very easy, and it also seems pretty effortless to rack up a 40%+ combo with him. I also have a thing for projectile reflectors, so that's nice too.


    Obvious question, but the PS3 costume codes are pretty much irredeemable until PSN is back up, right?

  • VrayVray Registered User regular
    gnodab wrote: »
    I'm liking Nightwolf a lot so far. Most of his moves being quarter-circle make playing with a dualshock very easy, and it also seems pretty effortless to rack up a 40%+ combo with him. I also have a thing for projectile reflectors, so that's nice too.


    Obvious question, but the PS3 costume codes are pretty much irredeemable until PSN is back up, right?

    Yeah. I'm sitting on my classic Jade costume code until it's back up.


    On a side note I hear Kano is getting some buffs in the upcoming balance patch including making his forward 3 hit low. This pleases me.

  • TommattTommatt Registered User regular
    Surprised this hasn't been posted.

    Gooteks and M. Ross do MK

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy3vPHOF9kw&sns=em


    Gooteks is a pretty good SF player, and they also do MvC3 stuff. Entertaining duo to watch.

    360 GT Tommatt
  • ghost whistlerghost whistler Registered User
    Page- wrote: »
    The 360 ain't getting those patches till the ps3 does.

    Screw it, I'm done. More done than before. I hope i can get a refund on this mess.

    I had a suspicion that Sony were pulling the strings with MK, of course this could all be bollocks. But this game really ain't all that.

  • ghost whistlerghost whistler Registered User
    Page- wrote: »
    Word on the street is that psn is delaying both the first round of dlc and the first major balance patch.

    Way to go, Sony.

    What street would that be?

  • TommattTommatt Registered User regular
    Page- wrote: »
    The 360 ain't getting those patches till the ps3 does.

    Screw it, I'm done. More done than before. I hope i can get a refund on this mess.

    I had a suspicion that Sony were pulling the strings with MK, of course this could all be bollocks. But this game really ain't all that.

    To bitch this much about it I'm sure you've played it enough to have gotten your money's worth.

    360 GT Tommatt
  • Mr_GrinchMr_Grinch Registered User regular
    So what does Smoke's shaky move actually do? I've yet to really dig in to the 'meat' of the game, having only played Story Mode up to now. I tried it a couple of times but I just shook and nothing happened. Is it a counter of some kind?

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood What happened to you? The Blue RouteRegistered User regular
    Mr_Grinch wrote: »
    So what does Smoke's shaky move actually do? I've yet to really dig in to the 'meat' of the game, having only played Story Mode up to now. I tried it a couple of times but I just shook and nothing happened. Is it a counter of some kind?

    If you get hit with a projectile while using it he does a counter move. And I think if you do the powered-up version of it, it will counter any sort of attack rather than just projectiles.

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  • ghost whistlerghost whistler Registered User
    Tommatt wrote: »
    Page- wrote: »
    The 360 ain't getting those patches till the ps3 does.

    Screw it, I'm done. More done than before. I hope i can get a refund on this mess.

    I had a suspicion that Sony were pulling the strings with MK, of course this could all be bollocks. But this game really ain't all that.

    To bitch this much about it I'm sure you've played it enough to have gotten your money's worth.

    Ive completed the story mode which is well done apart from the dreaedful ending, broken bosses and no abillity to skip cutscenes.
    The Challenge tower starts off well enough but quickly descends into random (and I mean random) nonsense that I've long since abandoned. I much preferred DA's kombo tutorial where you had a narrative that taught you the combos and moves for every character.
    Deception had better singeplayer content. The Krypt rewards here are anaemic at best. Beyond the extra costume (most of which are barely any different) and the second fatalities the rest is rubbish.
    I would like to have gotten my money's worth from the online but it doesn't work at all.
    The gameplay is fun enough. The graphics are good, but this is anot a deep fighting game. Too few options and the characters largely (and in some cases significantly) play the same.

  • TommattTommatt Registered User regular
    Mr_Grinch wrote: »
    So what does Smoke's shaky move actually do? I've yet to really dig in to the 'meat' of the game, having only played Story Mode up to now. I tried it a couple of times but I just shook and nothing happened. Is it a counter of some kind?

    If you get hit with a projectile while using it he does a counter move. And I think if you do the powered-up version of it, it will counter any sort of attack rather than just projectiles.

    Is that the one where he comes at you from the top of the screen? I saw it on Ross and gooteks, and they were wondering what it was (me too honestly)




    On the online, and to ghost writer.

    I've seen a lot of bitching about it, and the netcode is something to bitch about. I've had a lot of great matches with stable connections, but some things with tight timing were hard go get off, but that's the case in Marvel and SF4. Although sometimes it is really bad.

    But compared to Marvel, the only thing it's lacking is fight request during arcade and training. Everything else (besides the netcode which I havent experienced as consistently bad as most of you, then again I'm on fiber) is better.

    SSF4? Ok, no, but even capcom took a step back with marvel. That lobby system nay as well not exist.

    So from SSF4 to MK all we're missing is the netcode (pretty important I agree bit it hasn't been as bad as some claim for me) and replays. It's still superior to marvel, minus the request feature in arcade which they need to patch in as it makes waiting seem seamless, and that's it. I can still bitch about SSF4 not ever patching in the superior tourney mode patched into vanilla. Online isn't as bad as many would claim, or maybe I've just been lucky playing the hours I do (past midnight pSt) and my connection helps.

    It's not take it back to the store bad to say the least.

    And the story mode is as long as many single player games nowadays.

    But your venomous. Either your favorite Karacter didn't make it in or maybe you work for Kapcom. I've just never seen so much rage, especially since they can't even release a patch as they seem to have a deal with Sony.

    360 GT Tommatt
  • DunxcoDunxco Should get a suit Never skips breakfastRegistered User regular
    Ep. 5 is up in the op, added a couple more gamertags to the list. Probably alphabetise it later because that shit always bugs me.

    Here's some silly shenanigans with Kung Lao:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taN1U8Dkwaw

    Now I know that just looks stupid, but according to the accompanying text on Testyourmight, it's a reset, probably even a glitch. After an enhanced Hat Throw, for some reason the opponent is incapable of blocking which allows for a free hit... Right back into that kombo. It's got very specific applications: You'd need 100% meter at the start of the round and your opponent has to have less than roughly 10% so they can't build up to a breaker, but the damage scaling is resetting after every EX Hat Throw.

  • TommattTommatt Registered User regular
    How the fuck do you beat a competent patient raiden?

    360 GT Tommatt
  • WingedWeaselWingedWeasel Registered User regular
    Tommatt wrote: »
    Mr_Grinch wrote: »
    So what does Smoke's shaky move actually do? I've yet to really dig in to the 'meat' of the game, having only played Story Mode up to now. I tried it a couple of times but I just shook and nothing happened. Is it a counter of some kind?

    If you get hit with a projectile while using it he does a counter move. And I think if you do the powered-up version of it, it will counter any sort of attack rather than just projectiles.

    Is that the one where he comes at you from the top of the screen? I saw it on Ross and gooteks, and they were wondering what it was (me too honestly)

    There are 3 smoke specials where he will drop out of sky with a knee to the face. One is the normal shake which only counters projectiles. Apparently you can do it on reaction, but I cannot. The other 2 are EX moves. Shake and his teleport punch. The EX shake will counter anything but low attacks, so jump ins, uppercuts, most combo-starters, whatever.

    The ex teleport does 2 hits, and then will drop from the sky. The 3rd hit has to be blocked high.


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  • TommattTommatt Registered User regular
    Satisfaction sir, satisfaction indeed! Fought a spamming Raiden shortly after, who worked me for half a match. He disconnected right before I won 2-0 when I shut his spam down.

    360 GT Tommatt
  • BarrabasBarrabas Registered User
    Tommatt wrote: »
    Satisfaction sir, satisfaction indeed! Fought a spamming Raiden shortly after, who worked me for half a match. He disconnected right before I won 2-0 when I shut his spam down.

    That's the best kind of win. It's like a super win.

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